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Her kids speak English, Mandarin and Korean
Radio host Tan Li Yi, who is married to a Korean, makes learning fun to get her two kids interested in their mother tongues
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While radio host Tan Li Yi speaks English and Mandarin with her daughter Eun-jin and son Sung-min, her husband converses in Korean. The family watches mainly Korean television programmes at home.
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While many kids in Singapore prefer to speak only in English, Tan Li Yi's two children are happy to switch from English to Mandarin to Korean.
Tan, 46, a senior producer-presenter at 96.3 Hao FM Mandarin radio station, is married to Mr Park Seong-jun, 44, a South Korean business development manager based here. Their daughter Eun-jin is eight and son Sung-min is six.
